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  1. Platoon
    The top two GIF showed what appeared a curve ball on the left GIF and a FB on the right one. Tipping pitches? Or simply an extremely SSS? Someone smarter than me would have assuredly noticed this by now, I would think. As for dropping arm slot. That's often the sign of a nagging ache. Shoulder? Velocity and spin rate aside, not much is ever gained by dropping an arm angle. Especially for someone as short as he is. Flat arm slots produce frisbees, making good hitters happy hitters. Btw, excellent detailed post.
  2. Platoon
    The top two GIF showed what appeared a curve ball on the left GIF and a FB on the right one. Tipping pitches? Or simply an extremely SSS? Someone smarter than me would have assuredly noticed this by now, I would think. As for dropping arm slot. That's often the sign of a nagging ache. Shoulder? Velocity and spin rate aside, not much is ever gained by dropping an arm angle. Especially for someone as short as he is. Flat arm slots produce frisbees, making good hitters happy hitters.
  3. Platoon
    ".........advanced coaching staff has no stats to answer the big questions". I would imagine they have stats, pages and screens full of em! But not everything is magically fixable. We may hope that Berrios is an ace, but that doesn't make him so. He may simply be a good pitcher when he is top of game healthy with little room for error. Gibson? Same old Gibby, pitches like the Lion in the Wizard of Oz. No courage, nibble, nibble, nibble. Point is you can't make mediocre talent, dominant talent. It can have its nice streaks, but it generally returns to its basis. Parkersburg point was astute. Sitting on 95 mph is completely different than hitting 95. Reaching for 95 affects not only movement, it affects control and in the long run, longevity.
  4. Platoon
    You can play well sometimes and lose You can play poorly sometimes and win. The problem the Twins have is that they are generally playing poorly most of the time. It seems it's either the Bombas or nothing. The pitching is not good, but it's not easy to pitch well when there are so many questionable plays behind you. I say questionable because you can't use the word errors in MLB, as none are generally allocated. Last night had to be about the worst display of IF play, catcher included, that I have seen in MLB in quite awhile. If I watched a high school game with IF defense like that I would have been disappointed.
  5. Platoon
    Any stat that tells me RG is the best LF in baseball is puzzling, or worse. But regardless of how accurate defensive stats are, or aren't, you don't need analytics to see that this Twins team has sunken into a defensive morass......... There are days it's borderline embarrassing.
  6. Platoon
    The long list is nice, and productive. But so many surprises means so many are possibly over performing their talent level? Regression coming? Or will enough carry forward those improvements. I can see Garver, Sano and Kepler doing so. Some of the others suffer from either very SSS, age, or a longer history of lower outputs than successful ones. Time will tell.
  7. Platoon
    Keplers power surge is a big surprise for me also. But the biggest surprise is that third comes before second? :)
  8. Platoon
    I would like to like this about 7 times!
  9. Platoon
    RBI situation? I want the guy who puts the bat on the ball the most often, yet with some drive. Arrez. He is an awful tough out. Yes, if I am down 3 with two on, two out, that equation changes. But if I want to move one runner to the plate it's Arrez hands down.
  10. Platoon
    One of the simplest evaluations of his crazy improvement is the simple fact that he has went from about the 11th or 12th guy I would want up in an RBI situation to about the second. Arrez (sp) would likely be 1st, unless it was a HR needed.
  11. Platoon
    And since respecting opponent and game are part of the game then Cave should have showed his respect and taken that pitch, as he would have in almost every other AB he has ever taken as a pro. He ain't the kind of hitter who gets a green light. But since that's turned into an intractable discussion, I yeild the rest of my time.
  12. Platoon
    Writing down the unwritten rules would make them written. This would seemingly reduce the passion that the unwritten rules seem to generate. The baseball rule book is thick enough and confusing enough as is. You can't write every little thing down. . Bottom line I bet every sport has unwritten rules. But since I wasn't engrained in any other sport I don't know any. But they are out there, lurking, waiting to be enforced on the unsuspecting! Speaking of unsuspecting, I bet none of Rocco, Cave, Kepler, the 1B coach, nor the umpire were unsuspecting when Kep got pegged. They just moved up a base, and discussed it later.
  13. Platoon
    Well fortunately Caves Career wont be derailed by taking a 3-0 cookie in an 8 run game. More likely that will come if he keeps diving at sinking liners 6' from his glove?
  14. Platoon
    Seems a generational gap here. Lol. I had the opposite experience in coaching a Legion game. We were completely outmanned by a team that had been in the state high school tourney that year. They were up ten, we had one AB left before the "mercy rule" kicked in. They tried to squeeze a run in from third. I didn't go tell that coach to keep trying, I told him to look at the damn scoreboard! And I asked him what the hell he thought he was doing. Some here think an unwritten rule is poor sportsmanship. So what is piling on? While I give Cave credit for apologizing, he was an idiot. And I bet that's exactly what he got told at 1B. Does anyone remember a few years ago when someone on the Twins did something comparatively stupid, the next guy got plunked. He didn't go after the pitcher, he went into the dugout after his teammate. Well played! I went to one of my 11 year old grandsons games this summer. The other team was far more talented, and rightfully was overwhelmingly ahead. Easily past a ten run lead. And they just kept stealing base after base, and scoring on passed balls. The only thing those opposing players learned that day was the unwritten rule of arrogance.
  15. Platoon
    There really aren't a lot of surprises here with the exception of the teams HR binge. Some of that is the juiced ball, but they still are hitting more than anyone. And, that juiced ball is likely a contributor to some of the "biggest hit of the year" HR's flying out of parks daily. No ones lead is safe. On defense most of the players are as advertised. Defense is sort of a constant. And the Twins IF has been consistent. You can hide a Polanco with the shifts to the point his bat makes him palatable. But his lack of arm and non dependable glove work still will show up. He has a glove like a third baseman, and an arm like a second baseman (barely). Cron temporarily surprised me at 1B, but that apparently was an illusion. You need more accurate IF arms to be able to mitigate his glove. Finally while I don't agree with the "batting order doesn't matter crowd", I am more concerned with the use of the pen. I do think RP would function better if they had an idea where they stood. As it is right now there is no apparent rhyme or reason to pen usage. Maybe the level of mediocrity makes usage a moot point? But it wouldn't hurt to find out.
  16. Platoon
    Joe Mauer called, wanted to know if we miss him yet?
  17. Platoon
    One last thought on Roccos's managerial chops. There isn't a lot to go on so far. The Twins spent the first half of the season amassing wins with very large margins. The offense was so dominant anyone who could put 9 names on a sheet of paper could have won during that time. Once the games tighten, the hitters start to press a little, and a limited BP needs daily massaging one can get a better handle on his talents, or lack thereof. I will repeat what I have said before. While good managers possibly don't "win" many games, bad managers lose quite a few. There are things I like about him so far, and things I don't. But I can't say either opinion outweighs the other at this time.
  18. Platoon
    Dyson actually spent only slightly more time flying across all those humans as it took me to drive the bike to breakfast in SW MN last Sunday. While I did not see a small band, but I heard there was a 3 piece combo at the Legion in Walnut Grove Saturday night.
  19. Platoon
    Nope. I saw him with Elvis and Jimmy Hoffa in a Wal Mart just last night. On a more serious note, while I can't necessarily define Rocco's managerial faults to a T, it seems in general that he panics a little. His cool facade isn't backed up by his moves. I know Rogers is his big, maybe only gun, but he should leave it in his holster more often. Last night was the genisis for this loss today. It's not even that he "burns" him out, it's that he uses him unnecessarily, and then has to limit him later. And one last BTW, if our ASG SS had left his feet and knocked that GB down, this may not have happened. Terrible game awareness.
  20. Platoon
    Good point. If all we get is a guy capable of being good some days, and not some other days, we have several of those in Mpls. and at the Rocherster storage facility.
  21. Platoon
    There seems to be a shortage of no miss arms, and a clear path. I don't think anyone really knows what's going to happen as this FO has surprised us before, both pro and con. But I do know that no matter what, I don't want a trade made just for the sake of PR or selling tickets. I want the FO to run a baseball team and the marketing dept. to deal with tickets sales, and bloggers!
  22. Platoon
    It was a crazy entertaining game, especially if you set your tivo for over 5 hours. I would imagine Yankees Daily could write the same article bemoaning their BP and the big hits the Twins accumulated. It was like watching a team play itself in a mirror!
  23. Platoon
    Since the Reverend is supplying the steaks and hospitality make sure you remember the 11th commandment when the game ends. "Thou shalt say little when you lose, and even less when you win"!
  24. Platoon
    Is it possible that both our offense and pen have spoiled us? Both basically over performing in relation to their core talent level? There seems no doubt the pen did. They were/are based on medium level MLB talent it seems and have over performed for a couple of months. And like the moon men 50 yrs. ago, now have returned to earth. The offense is somewhat similar. It's talent level does seem higher relative to the pen, but it also exceeded its boundaries by a considerable margin. Raise your hand if you even contemplated this would be two months of the best offense in MLB. The other thing about the offense is it was destined to be all or nothing. Many lamented the lack of on base abilities, fearing what has transpired. Numerous solos HR's. Basically what many suspected has occurred. A pitcher will help, but anyone thinking one RP will make this a dominating team the likes of April and May are fooling themselves. Going back to the weak Central will help, but whipping KC and Detroit isn't dominating. Plus, the White Sox may be past a pushover already?
  25. Platoon
    Looking at the recent roster moves, there seems to be something cooking. While I have no idea what it is, as a general principle I would much rather see the Twins keep good prospects and part with some of JP's money. But since I have few principles remaining, I guess one less won't matter.
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